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     6     <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Jarrod Millman"

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     8     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Fernando Perez"

     8        <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Jarrod Millman</h3>

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     9        He is on the SciPy steering committee and an active

    10     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Fernando Perez</h3> 

    10        contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects.  He is the acting

    11        Fernando Perez received his PhD in Physics from the University of

    11        managing director and the director of computing for UC Berkeley's

    12        Colorado, Boulder, in 2002, working on questions regarding the

    12        Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the Neuroimaging in

    13        toplogical structure of the QCD vacuum using Lattice Gauge Theory

    13        Python (NIPY) project.

    14        techniques. He then worked at the Applied Mathematics department 

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    15        there, focusing on the development of a new family of

    16        algorithms for the efficient application of linear operators in

    17        multiple dimensions, with a focus on the uses of such techniques on

    18        the (bound state) multiparticle Schrodinger Equation. Since early 2008,

    19        he has worked as a research scientist at the Helen Wills Neuroscience

    20        Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, on the development

    21        of new algorithms and tools for neuroimaging. He is actively involved

    22        in the development of tools for scientific computing using high-level

    23        languages, in particular Python. He is the creator and lead developer

    24        of the IPython project for interactive computing

    25        (http://ipython.scipy.org) and an active contributor to other

    26        scientific Python projects, as well as a frequent lecturer on these

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    32     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>John Hunter</h3> 

    33       John Hunter received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of

    34       Chicago for experimental and numerical modeling work on the synchronization

    35       of neurons to aperiodic stimuli and the non-linear response of synapses

    36       to aperiodic inputs. His postdoctoral research was in coherence and

    37       characterization of transient synchronizations in pediatric epilepsy.

    38       He left academia in 2005 for quantitative finance, and is a Senior

    39       Quantitative Analyst at TradeLink Securities. An avid python programmer

    40       and lecturer in scientific computing in python, he is the creator

    41       and lead developer of the scientific visualization package, matplotlib.

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    47     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Perry Greenfield"

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    50     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Perry Greenfield</h3> 

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    51       Perry Greenfield received a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. His thesis

    17     <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Mateusz Paprocki"

    52       was based on Very Large Array radio observations of the first discovered

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    53       gravitational lens. After a short stint in communications engineering

    19        <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Mateusz Paprocki</h3>

    54       at Bell Labs, he ended up at the Space Telescope Science Institute,

    20       	Mateusz Paprocki is a software developer and a researcher in the field 

    55       where he has worked for the last 25 years. He was initially responsible

    21       	of computer science. He graduated last spring from Technical University 

    56       for calibrating the Faint Object Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope,

    22       	of Wroclaw in Poland. Mateusz is an active Open Source Python scientific 

    57       but for the last 15 years has been leading the Science Software

    23       	software developer. His major contribution to the community is his work on 

    58       Branch. He has pioneered the use of Python in astronomy, and his group

    24       	SymPy, a pure Python symbolic mathematics system.

    59       has been heavily involved in Python for the last 12 years. They have

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    60       developed PyRAF, numarray (the precursor to current numpy capabilities),

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    61       PyFITS, and were heavily involved in the development and support of

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    62       matplotlib. His group is now involved in developing the science

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    63       software to support the next large space telescope under construction,

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    64       the James Webb Space Telescope.

    30        <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Eric Jones</h3>

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    31       	Eric has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads 

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    32       	Enthought's product engineering and software design. Prior to co-founding Enthought, 

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    33       	Eric worked with numerical electromagnetics and genetic optimization in the 

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    34       	Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses 

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    35       	on the use of Python for scientific computing and serves as a member of the Python 

    36       	Software Foundation. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in electrical 

    37       	engineering and a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from Baylor University.

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    91     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Stéfan van der Walt"

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    93     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Stéfan van der Walt</h3> 

    94         Stéfan van der Walt is a researcher and lecturer in Applied Mathematics

    95         at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds a BEng (E&E with CS)

    96         (2005) and MScEng (2005) from the same institution, and recently

    97         completed his PhD on super-resolution imaging. His current research

    98         interests include mathematical modeling in neuro-imaging, the discrete

    99         pulse transform, GPU computing and manifold learning. Stéfan is a

   100         strong proponent of free and open software for scientific research

   101         and teaching, and has been part of the NumPy community since 2006.

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   108     <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Jarrod Millman"

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   110        <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Jarrod Millman</h3>

   111        He is on the SciPy steering committee and an active

   112        contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects.  He is the acting

   113        managing director and the director of computing for UC Berkeley's

   114        Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the Neuroimaging in

   115        Python (NIPY) project.

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   120     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Satrajit"

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   122     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Satrajit Ghosh</h3> 

   123         Satrajit Ghosh is a research scientist at the Research Laboratory of

   124         Electronics at MIT and a faculty member of the Speech and Hearing

   125         Biosciences and Technology program within the Harvard-MIT division

   126         of Health Sciences and Technology. He has extensive experience with

   127         neuroimaging, signal processing and software development. He has

   128         developed state-of-the-art tools for analysis of neuroimaging data

   129         and is managing the development of a Python-based, opensource,

   130         multi-institution software project aimed at improving interoperability

   131         among existing imaging analysis software packages

   132         (http://nipy.org/nipype/). His current research focus is on

   133         utilizing pattern classification approaches for diagnosis and

   134         prediction of neurological disorders. His prior work involves

   135         real-time synthesis of computer music and sound effects, controlling

   136         chaotic oscillators, computational modeling of speech acquisition

   137         and production, and realtime DSP-based speech signal processing. He

   138         holds a BS(Honors) degree in Computer Science from the National

   139         University of Singapore and a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems

   140         from Boston University.</div>

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